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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  catfished by a hotel online only to discover you may not survive the night) before heading over to Level99. Level99 was created/founded/birthed by the ... to it. It was a short walk across campus to Kendall Square to get to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways ... *bassoonist* for advice on what size cup to get. We laughed in our failure ... I applied to MIT three years ago (shudders). I was originally

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  the situation all wrong. I tried to make a second story by lofting a ... -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... room to my right swayed with me, and so did the world four stories down

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what he wants. Take these to their logical conclusion and you get Demon, at ... to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  By now, three full days have passed into my second semester here. The ... weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back ... seems to be a real mix of different year students in there, and I don

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  more structurally unstable by the weight of the expectations attached to ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  the one before it, so there was pressure to get a working solution every ... something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  is greeted with generous aid packages. It was also nice to get to ... !Helping Students with Asperger's and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Go To College ... : The Good, the Bad, and the Oh-So-Stale I am drawn to sessions with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  ago, to go to MIT. I was struck by the fact that it would be waiting for ... , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late. I’m surrounded by pamphlets, business cards, cute bookmarks and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Russian to be a more valuable volunteer, because a lot of people served by ... Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... Distance Medley (a 5K, a 10K, and a half-marathon, put on by the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  that meets once a week for two hours, so we actually get to talk in depth ... the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one ... not use any notes. <!--Jess and I are --!> I have been trying to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  representative to talk to several undergraduates about the program to get some ... "secondary" major, but they do get the opportunity to explore that major more ... I have this wonderful thing called free time, I'm ready to start

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  place two weekends ago too -- I only had enough time to drop by and ... , and still didn't get through all the companies I wanted to talk to. Also ... The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  getting used to. An RAship is more like having a job and less like being a ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... survive on ramen and coffee before getting scurvy, but the mundane details ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  mean...) school is open tomorrow, so it's back to a mostly snowballfight-less life. :P Nemo just getting started in Boston -- dedicated joggers forge on... 3:57 pm -- you got 3 minutes to get off the road cars

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs ... audience. Only the Hamentashen side is getting little stickers to go along ... . I'm going to try to semi-flow this debate, keeping you updated on all

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008